NEWS & DOCUMENTS

Correspondent of the International Correspondence, the magazine of the IWU-FI

The first Leon Trotsky International Academic Event, sponsored by the Philosophy Institute and the Juan Marinello Cuban Institute of Cultural Research, was held at the Benito Juarez house in Havana between 6 and 8 May, with the collaboration of other institutions, including the Leon Trotsky House Museum from Mexico City. The presentations included Trotsky’s contribution to the Marxist theory, his involvement in the cultural and artistic debates, Trotsky as a historian, among other topics. Simon Rodriguez Porras, Venezuelan Trotskyist, co-writer of the book Why did Chavismo fail? A balance sheet from the left opposition, a member of the Socialism and Freedom Party of Venezuela and the IWU-FI took part in the panel Revolution in the Caribbean and the continent with the paper The validity of the IV International in the 21st Century.

Once again, the Israeli government has intensified its campaign of terror against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. In the past 48 hours, the Israeli air force and navy have killed 25 Palestinians, including Falastine Abu Arar, a 37-year-old pregnant mother, and her 14-month-old niece, Siba. Nearly 70 Palestinians were injured in the attacks. In addition, the Israeli army destroyed the building that had housed the Gaza office of the Turkish state news agency Anadolu. Three Israelis died as a result of the launching of Palestinian rockets in retaliation.

A coup attempt is ongoing, summoned by Guaido, the National Assembly bosses’ parties and sponsored by Donald Trump and the United States.

A military sector has released Leopoldo Lopez, who was under house arrest, and they have stationed in front of the Carlota air base in Caracas and occupied Carlota. From there, they are calling the people to take to the streets and urging other military sectors to pronounce against Maduro.

In this paper we clear out and push forward an exchange with international socialist revolutionary comrades we know are genuinely engaged in developing theoretically and politically certain analytical and political topics dealt by Nahuel Moreno on the revolutions post WW2.

In fact, we want to answer the malicious allegation that Nahuel Moreno would have capitulated to the Menshevik and Stalinist “two-stage theory”.

The British police arrested Julian Assange on 11 April in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, as Lenin Moreno’s government had revoked the political asylum granted to him in 2012. They admitted acting based on a request for extradition by the U.S. government, which opens a legal process that could lead to him spending a year imprisoned in the United Kingdom for having circumvented conditions of probation by taking refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy. And after that, he could be extradited to the United States, where he is persecuted for having disclosed official documents of that country’s government that account for brutal war crimes and interference in third countries.

By Miguel Sorans, IS (Socialist Left) and IWU-FI leader.There are sectors of the left, including comrades who sympathise with Chavismo although they are critical of Maduro, and organisations that claim to be Trotskyists, who criticise the policies of our organisation, IWU-FI, for Venezuela. Among them New MAS of Argentina and LTS, Venezuelan group linked to the PTS of Argentina.

In a lot of countries the feminist movement is organising the new international strike for our rights. With meetings and assemblies, we get ready to promote a new internationalist, anti-patriarchy and anti-capitalist day of struggle and mobilisation to get our demands.

"Paris burns" has been the headline of different journalistic media, reflecting the consequences of the popular demonstration of the so-called "yellow vests" on Saturday, 1 December in the capital of France. Thousands, on the streets of Paris and across the country, faced and overflowed the police repression of the conservative government of Macron.